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First Born in American COlony

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Virginia Dare

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First Winner of 2 nobel prizes

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Marie Curie

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First and only to receive the congressional medal of Honor

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Mary Walker

(American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon.

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First in Congress

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Jeannette Rankin (1916)

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First Senator

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Hattie Caraway (1932)

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First Elected in Both houses of Congress

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Margaret Chase Smith

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First Presidential Cabinet Member

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Frances Perkins (FDR administration)

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First Sec of State

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Madeleine Albright

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First Supreme COurt Justice

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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First Sect of Tranport

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Elizabeth Dole

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First Speaker of the House

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Nancy Pelosi

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First Surgeon General

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Jocelyn Elders

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First Chairman of the Fed

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Janet Yellen

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First Attorney General

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Janet Reno

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First to Break Sound Barrier

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Jacqueline Cochran

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First to fly non-stope around the world

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Jeana Yeager

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First to swim the English Channel

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Gertrude Ederle

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First American Doctor

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First Woman in American to be Depicted on a Coin

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Susan B. Anthony

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First American Astronomer

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Maria Mitchell

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First American Woman to Win Noble Prize for Peace

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Jane Addams

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First Presidential Candidate

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Victoria Woodhull (1872)

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First Major Party VP Candidate

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Geraldine Ferraro

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First to co-Anchor Major Network News

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Barbara Walters

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First Time Woman of the Year

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Wallis Simpson

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First in Gymnastics Hall of Fame

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Mary Lou Retton

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First US Balance Bean Gold Medalist

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Shannon Miller

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First Miss America

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Margaret Gorman (1921)

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First Citadel Cadet

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Shannon Faulkner

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First stewardess

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Ellen Church

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First to win pole position in Daytona 500

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Danica Patrick

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First to Win Academy Award for Best Director

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Katherine Bigelow

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First American Idol Winner

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Kelly Clarkson

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First American Convention to Advocate Women’s Rights 1848

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Seneca Falls Convention

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President of Argentina 2007-

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Christina Fernandez (Used to be First Lady)

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President of Australia 2010-13

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Julia Gillard

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German Chancellor 2005-

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Angela Merkel

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Prime Minister of India 1966-77, 1980-84

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Indira Gandhi

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Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74

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Golda Meir (Raised in Milwaukee)

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President of Argentina, 1975-76

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Isabel Peron

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Prime Minister of GB, 1979-1990

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Margaret Thatcher

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President of the Phillippines, 1986-92

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Corazon Aquino

named Time magazine’s “Woman of the Year” in 1986.

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Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1988-90

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Benazir Bhutto

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President of Nicaragua, 1990-97

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Violetta Chamorro

she unseated Daniel Ortega.[1] She was elected as the head of a 14-party anti-Sandinista alliance known as the National Opposition Union

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PM of Canada, 1993

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Kim Campbell

Campbell was the first, and to date, only female Prime Minister of Canada

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Andre Sacarov’s Dissident Wife

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Elena Bonner

a Russian nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist

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Poetess from the Island of Lesbos

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Sappho

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Lady from Coventry, England

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Lady Godiva

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Titanic Survivor From Leadville, Co

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(Unsinkable) molly Brown

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Pilot Lost over the Pacific, 1937

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Amelia Earhart

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She went around the world in 72 Days, 1890

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Nelly Bly

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Franco-Prussian War Nurse, Red Cross Founder

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Clara Barton

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Frontier Woman from Deadwood, SD

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Calamity Jane

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54
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Wild West Show Sharp-Shooter

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Annie Oakley

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Friend of the James Gang

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Belle Starr

56
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Deaf Radcliffe Graduate, 1904

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Helen Keller

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Helen Keller’s Teacher

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Anne Sullivan

58
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Hull House Founder

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Jane Addams

59
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Lord Nelson’s Lover

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Emma (Lady) Hamilton

60
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Founder of Bryn Mawr School for Girlds

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Edith Hamilton

61
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Austrian Born Pioneer of Child Pyschoanalysis

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Anna Freud

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First President, National Women’s Suffrage Assn

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Susan B Anthony

63
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Women’s Right’s Leader from Seneca Falls, NY

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Hatchet Swinging Member of the Women’s Temperance Union

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Carrie Nation

65
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Burlesque Queen who lived in france

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Josephine Baker

Black Pearl,” “Bronze Venus” and even the “Creole Goddess

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Minsky’s and Ziegfeld Follies Burlesque Dancer

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Gypsy Rose Lee

67
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Million Dollar Mermaid Aqua-Movie Star

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Esther Williams

American competitive swimmer and actress

68
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American Impressionist Painter

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Mary Cassatt

69
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She Opened up the First Birth Control Clinic

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Margaret Sanger

70
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Southwestern Painter of Flowers and Skyscapes

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Georgia O’Keefe

71
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Amsterdam Diarist

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Anne Frank

72
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1920s Etiquette Adviser

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Emily Post

73
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Etiquette Adviser, Went to Jail 2004

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Martha Stewart

74
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Original Platinum Blonde

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Jean Harlow

75
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The Lady with the lamp

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Florence Nightingale

76
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The Bird Woman

77
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The Poor Little Rich Girl

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Barbara Hutton

an American debutante/socialite, heiress and philanthropist. She was dubbed the “Poor Little Rich Girl,” first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.

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The Blonde Bombshell

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Jayne Manfield

79
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America’s Sweetheart

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Mary Pickford

80
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The First Lady of the Silent Screen

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Lillian Gish

81
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Girl int eh Red Velvet Swing

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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw

82
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Peekaboo Girl

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Veronica Lake -her peek-a-boo hairstyle

83
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Sweater Girl

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lana turner

84
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Sarong Girl

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Dorothy Lamour

She is best remembered for appearing in the Road to… movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.[1]

Her appearance as “Ulah” in The Jungle Princess (1936) brought her fame and also marked the beginning of her image as the “Sarong Queen.”

85
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It Girl

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Clara Bow

plucky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname “The It Girl”.[

86
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The Pinup Girl

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Betty Grable

87
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First Lady of Song

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Ella Fitzgerald

American jazz vocalist with a vocal range spanning three octaves

won 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush

88
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First Lady of the American Stage

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Helen Hayes

and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (an EGOT). Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986

Best Actress
1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Best Supporting Actress
1970 Airport

89
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Queen of the Swashbucklers

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Maureen O’Hara

90
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Quest of the West

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Dale Evans

91
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Queen of the Surf

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Esther WIlliams

92
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Queen of Soul

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Aretha Franklin

93
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Queen of Disco

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Donna Summer

94
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The Brazilian Bombshell

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Carmen Miranda

95
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Alqonquin Hotel “Round Table Wit”

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Dorothy Parker

96
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Four Square Gospel Founder

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Aimee Semple McPherson

based evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930

97
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She Studied Mountain Gorillas

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Dian Fossey

98
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She Studied Chimpanzees

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Jane Goodall

99
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The Nun of Amherst or the Belle of Amherst

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Emily Dickinson

100
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Emily Dickenson’s Adviser

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Helen Hunt Jackson

101
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Italian Teching Method Innovator

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Maria Montessori

102
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abe Lincoln’s young love

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Ann Rutledge

103
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Dante’s Love

104
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Frederic Chopin’s Lover

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George Sand

a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artist

105
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Time-Life Korean War Photographer

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Margaret Bourke-White

106
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Dashiell Hammet’s Love

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Lillian Hellman

American dramatist and screenwriter known for her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52

DH - Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man),

107
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The Last of the Red Hot Mamas

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Sophie Tucker

108
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Little Miss Sure Shot

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Annie Oakley

109
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American Astronomer

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Maria Mitchell

110
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Boss Fosse’s Red Headed Wife

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Gwen Verdon

111
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She Said “Call Me Madam”

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Ethel Merman

112
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CNN’S British-Iranian Reporter

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Christiane Amanpour

113
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Heiress Kidnapped on Feb 5, 1974

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Patty Hearst

114
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1979

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Mother Teresa

115
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Slain Tejano Singer

116
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Red-Headed Country Music Star

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Reba McIntrye

117
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New Jersey Governor

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Christie Todd Whitman

American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003

118
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Texas Governor, 1991-95

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Ann Richards

119
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Washington Governor, 1977-81

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Dixie Lee Ray

state’s first female governor and was known for her leadership of the state during the devastating eruption of Mt. St. Helens, for her strident support of atomic energy, and for her personal eccentricities

120
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Connecticut Governor, 1975-80

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Ella Grasso

She was the first woman elected to this office and the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state “in her own right”, as all three female governors preceding Grasso had been married to men who were previously the governor of their states.

121
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Connecticut Rep, 1943-47

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Clare Booth Luce

the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast

-Ambassador to Italy and Brazil

122
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Maryland Senator and Congressperson

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Barbara Mikulski

123
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Chicago Mayor, 1979

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Jane Byrne

She was the first and only female mayor of Chicago, the second largest city in the United States, and the largest U.S. city to have had a female mayor as of 2014

124
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US Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia

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Shirley Temple Black

125
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Paleoanthropologist who died in 1996

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Mary Leakey

126
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Supreme Court Justice Appointed 1993

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

127
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Supreme Court Justice Appointed 2009

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Sonia Sotomayor

128
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Supreme Court Justice Appointed 2012

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Elana Kagan

129
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Teacher who perished in the challenger Disaster

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Christa Mcauliffe

130
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She testified against Clarence Thomas

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Anita Hill

131
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White House Correspondent who retired after 40 years

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Helen Thomas

132
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First Test Tube Baby

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Louise Brown

133
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Child Pulled from a Texas Well, 1984

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Baby Jessica (McClure)

134
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Soldier Rescued in Iraq, 2003

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Jessica Lynch

135
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Nobel Prize Winner Released in Myanmar in 2010

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Aung San Suu Kyi

136
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She swam from cuba to florida in 2013

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Diana Nyad

2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, she became the first person confirmed to swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage,

The Naiads are water-centered nymphs in Greek mythology

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